Examine
the following three quotes. It is as though they were written by the
same pen; as though all three had received their marching orders from
a higher authority.

The first
quote, attributed to Charles Krauthammer, appeared in The Washington
Post on 21 September, titled "Voices
of Moral Obtuseness":

"Let
us look at American policies. America conducted three wars in the 1990s.
The Gulf War saved the Kuwaiti people from Saddam. American intervention
in the Balkans saved Bosnia. And then we saved Kosovo from Serbia. What
do these three military campaigns have in common? In every one we saved
a Muslim people."

Does Charles
Krauthammer actually believe that Bosnia has been "saved"
by American intervention? Bosnia has become Islam's corridor into Europe,
while it's former president Alija Izetbegovic is likely to be indicted
as a war criminal by the Hague Tribunal, and Richard Holbrooke's fair-haired
boy, former Bosnian ambassador to the UN, Mohammed Sacirbey, is being
charged with the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Over 20,000
Mujahedin,
along with their weapons, still remain in Bosnia (a violation of the
Dayton Peace Agreement) with the Bosnian women who were forced to marry
them. Mr. Krauthammer has a strange concept of what constitutes being
saved.

Krauthammer
shows equally skewed thinking by claiming that America "saved Kosovo
from Serbia." Kosovo is a part of Serbia. How has American intervention
"saved" Kosovo from Serbia when our intervention has turned
Serbia's Jerusalem over to Osama bin Laden's Islamic Kosovo Liberation
Army mafia? "In every one we saved a Muslim people," said
Krauthammer. Wasn't the saving of the Kuwaiti people from Saddam more
a case of saving Muslims from Muslims?

Warnings

In an
interview on 16 October 1995 with the Dutch publication, De Standaard,
former Bosnian Serb president, Radovan Karadzic said:

"The
West will not remain proud of what it has done to the Serbs. Certainly
now that you are heading for serious problems with Islamic terrorists.
We will no longer protect Europe against Islamic terrorism. Let them
go to Europe (the Bosnian Muslims!)."

As early
as 1992, a U.S. House of Representatives report by Yossef Bodansky and
Vaughn Forrest (Task Force on Terrorism & Unconventional Warfare)
warned of "Iran's
European springboard":

"Bosnia-Herzegovina's
Muslims have long been considered by the Islamist leadership in the
Middle East to be ripe as a vehicle for the expansion of Islamic militancy
into Europe.... Thus, Tehran and its allies are using the violence in
Bosnia-Herzegovina as a springboard for the launching of a jihad in
Europe."

It is
apparent that there was a gross lack of attention by members of the
House of Representatives given to this excellent prognosis of Bosnia's
future.

A
strong indictment of US commitment to arm the Muslims of Bosnia can
be found in a
1997 report by the US Senate Republican Policy Committee titled,
"Clinton-Approved Iranian Arms Transfers Help Turn Bosnia into
Militant Islamic Base."

BBC
News of 22 June, 2001 titled, "Deceiving
your allies," reported, "The
Bosnian Muslim army was covertly supplied with arms by the US during
the 1990s."

As
a career military officer's wife, Stella Jatras has traveled widely
and has lived in many foreign countries where she not only learned about
other cultures but also became very knowledgeable regarding world affairs
and world politics. Stella Jatras lived in Moscow for two years (where
her husband, George, was the Senior Air Attaché), and while there,
worked in the Political Section of the US Embassy. Stella has also lived
in Germany, Greece and Saudi Arabia. Her travels took her to over twenty
countries.

Although
there were many other such official and unofficial reports during the
time of alleged US impartiality, American involvement in arming the
Bosnian Muslims went virtually unchallenged.

History

To understand
what is happening in the Balkans today requires some knowledge of Balkan
history, which seems to be lacking in so many of our pundits. In a single
day in 1389, 77,000 Serbs died on the battle fields of Kosovo in an
unsuccessful attempt to stop the onslaught of the Ottoman Empire into
Europe. By their sacrifice, and the decades of resistance to the Islamic
invasion, the Serbs enabled Europe to stop the Turks at the gates of
Vienna -- even though the Serbs had to endure 500 years of domination
under the Islamic yoke.

It was
during those years that Serbs, ethnically cleansed from Kosovo were
settled in the area of Krajina, the southern border of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, to serve as a buffer between the Christian West and Islam. How
ironic that in 1995, with US military aid and technology, Croatian forces
brutally ethnically cleansed over 650,000 Serbs from Croatia, including
250,000 from those ancestral lands in the Krajina.

Echoes of Krauthammer

In an
almost identical quote to that of Krauthammer's, US Ambassador to Singapore,
Franklin Lavin noted that US troops have protected Muslims three times
since the end of the Cold War, when they liberated Kuwait, stopped ethnic
cleansing in Kosovo and provided peacekeepers in Bosnia. "America
has used force only three times since the end of the Cold War,"
Lavin said. "In each instance, American servicemen put their lives
at risk to save Muslims" (Associated Press, 23 Sep 2001).

The most
blatantly bigoted quote comes from Congressman Brad Sherman of California,
(US Congressional Record of 21 September 2001):

"Let
us remember that America is not anti-Muslim and not anti-Islam. In fact,
the last three military engagements of the United States were for the
purpose of defending Muslim people. We restored the independence of
Kuwait. We then went on to save the Bosnian Muslims from genocide. And
then we bombed a Christian [emphasis added] country, Serbia,
because of what Serbia tried to do to its Albanian Muslim minority.
And now American and NATO troops are engaged in Macedonia for the purpose
of achieving a just result for the Albanian Muslims who are a minority
in that country."

Sherman's
crowing over having bombed a Christian country was offensive enough,
but let us be more specific: what he actually meant was, "We bombed
an Orthodox Christian country, Serbia." Nor should it be
forgotten that President William Jefferson Clinton continued to bomb
Yugoslavia over the holy days of Eastern Orthodox Easter but halted
the bombing of Iraq during Ramadan out of respect for Islam.

Both the
Clinton administration and the previous Bush (89-93) administration
had to prove that they were not anti-Muslim, beginning with former Acting
Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, who made it clear that a US
goal in Bosnia was to placate the Muslim world. Eagleburger characterized
the US government's pro-Muslim position in Bosnia as a counter to the
Muslim world's perception of an anti-Muslim position regarding Iraq
-- and if we had to destroy a small Orthodox Christian nation in the
process, it was a small price to pay.